I can't play. Pls help me :(

All screenshots are sadly in german as my game is set to... german, obviously. But I hope you can get past that. Anyways, so basiclally, after the last update there are a lot and I mean A LOT of issues with my game. Including not bing able to play, but we'll get to that. First of all no matter how many times i check my notifications, they won't go away. But whatever, it'S just a minor issue. Now the things the game sends you (Not sure what it's called in english) won't send I guess? I don't really care about them anyways but it's annoying to get that notification every time. Now to the more serious issues: Any changes I make to the settings will NOT save. No matter how many times I press save, once I close and re-open the game (wich you have to do to aply them obviously) The changes I made won't even show up in the settings menu. If they work in game I can't test because, oh yea, I can't play. If I press load / continue game I can get into the select world menu, but it shows me some code 22 and tells me my game wasn't saved. Wich is already annoying, but If I try to play anyways and just re-do everything I spent hours on that won't even wok either. The button to make sims is gone and I have no in game money anymore, wich makes it impossible to build or go into any building at all. So yea, completly unplayable. If I press "new game" it's even worse just giving me a white screen for a few seconds and then closing the game. I have tried everything. I took out mods, I checked the game files for issues, I turned my PC on and off, I've opend the game from steam, EA launcher. I have not yet unistalled and re-installed the game but I don't want to. That's like the last thing I would want to try. I have watched multiple videos on how to fix it, but nothing works. I don't know what to do anymore. Please someone help me. This update has been out for a relativley long time and NOTHING has been fixed, I can't be the only one having thse problems, right?